Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Amylia, Jamie, and Heidi tagged me for the meme that's spreading like wildfire throughout the OC.

To participate, one must:

Link to the person’s blog who tagged you.

Post these rules on your blog.

List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself

Tag seven random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.

Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blog.

Seven, huh?

Well, here we go...

#1. Recently, I made the rather shocking discovery that I am incapable of telling a joke.

Now, it's not that I'm not funny.

Oh, I'm funny.

I just can't tell a joke.

How do I know this?

Because my husband proved it to me after dinner one night last week when, despite much coaching on his part, I could not tell a simple joke.

It kept coming out like this:

"A guy walks into a bar with a duck on his head. Bartender says: 'Hey, what's that duck doing on your head?' Ughhhhh... Wait, wait-- let me try again. A guy walks into a bar with a duck on his head. Bartender says, 'Hey, why is that thing on your head?' GAH!"

And so on.

(Big-time kudos to whoever knows the name of the truly awesome movie this pathetically-rendered joke comes from.)

#2. I was a thumb sucker.

Until I was nearly 8-years old.

Always the right thumb.

When asked why not the other, I told people the left thumb tasted like pepper.

#3. I came darn close to dying after giving birth to Joseph.

Darn close.Two days after a perfectly normal (albeit long), intervention-free labor and birth-- I was admitted to the hospital with sepsis (an infection in the blood).

Thankfully, Ryan and Joseph were allowed to stay with me.

It took a week in the hospital and twoweeks recovering at home before I couldfinally take my boy outside for a walk.

#4.I have a trick left thumb. Ryan thought it best not to include a photo.

Let's just say it's tricky.

#5. When I was very young, my mother's nickname for me was "Tilly Tippy Twinkle Toes."

#6. As kids, whenever my siblings and I watched the Wizard of Oz, we'd yell "I'm the ___!"-- and then call out the name of the character we wanted to "be" for the duration of the movie.

17 comments:

oh my! I LOVE the 80's photos! Too "cool" (note I use that word loosely and in quotation marks :)

How scary about the infection after giving birth. My sister got an infection after giving birth to her 2nd son (c-section) in a post-Katrina New Orleans hospital and with type 1 diabetes it still is a problem. it has healed for the most part but is not the same. scary stuff.

thumb sucking until 8? left thumb tasting like pepper? too funny! thanks so much for playing along...

Scary about your post-partum time with Joseph. Greg's mom had placenta accreta (I think that's right) with him (in England, across the ocean from both families) and nearly died/nearly needed a hysterectomy from the hemorrhage. Same thing happened with his brother seven years later, but the doc knew what to do to prevent a hemorrhage.

Oh my gawd, you, like, totally look like Patty Smyth from Scandal in that last picture.

I can never remember the jokes to re-tell them. Which is why I like jokes like this: A priest, a horse and an Irishman walk into the bar and the bartender yells "What is this, a f*cking joke?" It's short. Easy for my feeble brain to remember. You can borrow it if you want. Solidarity in numbers and all that.

Great list and those 80's pictures are AWESOME! I wish I had been around back then, stir-up pants and big hair...wow!

In response to your comment, I went to the dentist today, and it was fun!My sister just came back from visiting a friend in Boston, and I wish I could have gone with her. The accent is so amazing. So is the fact that a portion of The Departed was filmed in your home town. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

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I'm a mom of two children-- a 9-year old girl and a 16-year old young man. In addition, I've been vice president of a marketing company; a full-time student (English major); a product services manager for a financial publisher; a childbirth instructor and birth assistant; an aspiring sculptor; and most recently, director of information services and outreach for a non-profit government watchdog group-- in exactly that order.